Search results for "George"

Vedel Georges

2007

Entrée de dictionnaire; Dictionnaire historique des juristes français XIIe-XXe siècles

Chardon Georges-Henri

2007

Entrée de dictionnaire; Dictionnaire historique des juristes français XIIe-XXe siècles

Hepp Georges-Philippe

2007

Entrée de dictionnaire; Dictionnaire historique des juristes français XIIe-XXe siècles

George Sand. Le Théâtre des marionnettes de Nohant

2009

Buffon 1988

1992

La part maudite de Georges Bataille

2015

George Bataille's La Part maudite was published in 1949. In the post-war period, this text was disconcerting. Poorly understood, it has been discredited by both specialists and readers of Bataille. All the more reason to return this essential text and its dream of pure expenditure to its rightful place.

The notion of physical and moral well-being : relationship and interaction in George Eliot's literary works

2020

This dissertation analyzes the concept of well-being in the writings of George Eliot in order to account for the question of the individual in his/her relationships with the other and others such as animals and the environment so as to obtain physical, moral as well as personal and social well-being along the resulting ethics and aesthetics. For the novelist, well-being finds its source in the individuals’ suffering in British nineteenth-century society. Conceiving well-being from Eliot’s point of view therefore means giving priority to individual relationships and interactions. This relational vision of well-being amounts to considering the social regularities related to community life, th…

Georges Feydeau

2021

International audience; Entraînée dans des sarabandes endiablées, la bourgeoisie fin de siècle s'éclaire d'un jour satirique : la Môme Crevette côtoie le docteurPetypon, et Bouzin, le général Irrigua. Il n'existe qu'un vaudevilliste comme Georges Feydeau pour faire des ennuis conjugaux et du demi-monde, des comédies noires, méticuleusement réglées, jusqu’à la folie - dussions-nous en avoir le tournis !

Historien-romancier qui n’écrit pas de romans

2020

International audience

Present Uncertainty and Looking to the Past: The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam’s Monthly

2023

Putnam’s Monthly (1853-1857) was one of the best literary and general interest magazines in antebellum America. Besides its high quality, what made the New York-based magazine stand out was its commitment to publishing American writers and focusing on American themes at a time when, with no reliable international copyright protection in place, many periodicals in the United States were in the habit of reprinting the works of foreign (primarily British) authors, sometimes without payment. However, despite its optimistic literary nationalism, Putnam’s Monthly expressed uncertainty about the quality of contemporary American literature and, indeed, about the capacity of American society to enco…